Identifier: inwildestafricar00macq (find matches)
Title: In wildest Africa : the record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, the Kilimanjaro region and British East Africa, with an account of an ascent of the snowfields of Mount Kibo, in East Central Africa, and a description of the various native tribes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: MacQueen, Peter, 1865-1924
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Publisher: London : George Ball and sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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CHAPTER XVIII THE VICTORIA NYANZA IICTORIA NYANZA, the largest freshwater lake in the world, with the excep-tion of Lake Superior in our own coun-try, is partly German and partly English. Theboundary between the two governments runs acrossthe lake at i° south of the Equator. The wholeextent of the Victoria Lake is from 3.5° South to1.5° North. Nyanza means water or lakein the Bantu language. The blue waters extend on all sides and only afew islands are in sight as we stand on the pier atPort Florence. The islands are of different types— some high and rocky, some bordered with papy-rus swamps filled with strange birds and black hip-popotami. Here we are right over the Equator in KavirondoGulf, and yet the air is as cool as on Lake Supe-rior in the summertime. The English Governmenthas on the Lake eight steamers of from six hun- 288
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Iaui.jgiuji.i uv i-i-ur Uutkfwa-h, eup.vri^in, l;«i., uy i. luUrwuod i rndLTWinxl, .N. \ .A riRST GLIMPSE OF VICTORIA NYANZA. The Victoria Nyanza 289 dred to one thousand tons burden. They are verycomfortable, snug little craft, lighted by electricity,with a cuisine as fine as that on the vessels of ourown Great Lakes. I crossed on the steamer Clement Hill, named after Sir Clement Hill,one of the English statesmen of Newest Africa. At Port Florence our ship was loaded by nativeswith only breechcloths, which they wore out of re-spect to the prejudices of the passengers. TheUganda Railway brings one directly to the lake ona siding which comes down from the pretty stationof Port Florence. The naked porters took our lug-gage on board. I remember the natives singing asthey worked; and the play of every muscle on theblack statues was to be seen. We sailed in the late afternoon through Kavi-rondo Gulf which is about forty miles long and four-teen miles wide. Then we entered the lake proper.

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